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Why exactly do you call S3 "centralized"? You can distribute it around the world if you choose to.
by sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
Why exactly do you call S3 "centralized"? You can distribute it around the world if you choose to.
- davidatbu 4y agoIn this case, I'm happy to use another adjective like "traditional cloud" or something. My inquiry is into why @sub7 thinks FileCoin is a money-grab.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y agoAlmost all coins are money-grabs. At this stage I default to assuming a coin is a money grab, and expect them to convince me it's not. Maybe the person you were talking to is the same.
- davidatbu 4y ago@sub7 specifically called out FileCoin as a money grab, I don't understand their reasoning (which might be because I'm a newbie to FileCoin/web3). And from @sub7's reply to @TheIronYuppie, it doesn't look like they are willing to explain further. If somebody else could perhaps speculate about the detailed reasoning behind @sub7's claims (or even their own reasoning as to why FileCoin is a money-grab), that would also be great.
- yellowapple 4y agoS3 is owned and operated by a single entity (Amazon), with all data stored on and served by that single entity's servers - i.e. it's centralized. Nowadays there are other companies offering S3-compatible file storage, so at best "S3-compatible" would be federated, but compared to something like IPFS that's much closer to the "centralized" end of the spectrum than to the "decentralized" end. That is: decentralization is a separate concern from geographic distribution; the former pertains to control/ownership over the data and the hardware storing it, and in S3's case that control/ownership is centralized into a single corporation.